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Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief's subjectivity and uniqueness. It cover classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O'Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.
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Reanimating grief explores the revival of the dead in literature, theatre and performance. Using the central concept of 'reanimation', the book captures the multiple ways the dead return in cultural texts as ghosts or memories, epiphanies or fragments, in visual, textual or acoustic forms. The chapters combine critical and creative writing to show how bereavement involves a desire to understand death's poetics and to express the uniqueness of personal loss. The book covers a wide range of works from classic literature to contemporary theatre, performance and fiction, and opens up new avenues for writing about grief, its artistics representation, and personal loss. Reanimating grief suggests that reanimations are impossible acts of revival, elegies for loss and belated expressions of love.
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Reanimating grief explores the revival of the dead in literature, theatre and performance. Using the central concept of 'reanimation', the book captures the multiple ways the dead return in cultural texts as ghosts or memories, epiphanies or fragments, in visual, textual or acoustic forms. The chapters combine critical and creative writing to show how bereavement involves a desire to understand death's poetics and to express the uniqueness of personal loss. The book covers a wide range of works from classic literature to contemporary theatre, performance and fiction, and opens up new avenues for writing about grief, its artistics representation, and personal loss. Reanimating grief suggests that reanimations are impossible acts of revival, elegies for loss and belated expressions of love.
Author Biography
William McEvoy is Associate Professor of Drama and English at the University of Sussex
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date July 2024
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526176691 / 1526176696
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages208
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 6194
- Reference Code16365
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